@Anon anon: The latest Tomato builds from "Toastman" DO have inbound rating limiting; I'm no really happy with my QoS setup, apart from the fact that the L7 filters are utterly incapable of recognizing Youtube videos.

About a year and a half ago, I researched the state of routers: about as unsexy as it gets but essential to the stability, reliability, and security of your Internet connection. My conclusion? This is boring old plain vanilla commodity router hardware, but when combined with an open source fi...

This (hard to navigate) document lists the number of Judges in Germany at 20.000 as well, but the claims there are 30.000 judges in the US:
http://www.unodc.org/pdf/crime/eighthsurvey/8sv.pdf (page 137).

In the Atlantic, comparative-law prof James Maxeiner argues that German civil justice is superior to its American counterpart (h/t Ed Philp): Comparing how American process works to its German counterpart highlights five ways in which our own system is defective: 1. In Germany, parties must tel...